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Miniature language system acquisition by children with different learning proficiencies.

J Johnston1, M Blatchley, G S Olness

  • 1Indiana University.

Journal of Speech and Hearing Research
|June 1, 1990
PubMed
Summary

Children learned two languages with different word orders. They found the Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) order easier, but made more errors with the Patient suffix, suggesting perceptual salience can impact grammatical learning.

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Area of Science:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Linguistics
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Children's language acquisition involves understanding grammatical structures.
  • The role of word order and morphological marking in early language learning is complex.
  • Investigating how children process different syntactic structures provides insights into cognitive development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine how children aged 7-10 learn miniature languages with varying word orders (VSO vs. SOV).
  • To determine the impact of a Patient suffix on grammatical analysis in different word orders.
  • To explore the relationship between perceptual salience, learning strategies, and grammatical acquisition.

Main Methods:

  • Sixteen children (aged 7:8 to 9:10) participated in a communication game.

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  • Children learned two artificial languages with identical semantic content (Action, Agent, Patient) but different word orders.
  • Language I: Verb-Subject-Object (VSO); Language II: Subject-Object-Verb (SOV), both with a Patient suffix.

    • Main Results:

    • Children found the SOV language easier to learn than the VSO language.
    • More errors were observed in Patient suffix usage within the SOV language.
    • Fewer word order errors occurred in the SOV language compared to VSO.

    Conclusions:

    • Perceptual salience of utterance-final elements (like suffixes) may impede grammatical analysis.
    • Cognitive capacity limits and perseverative learning strategies can influence the acquisition of grammatical features.
    • Findings suggest that word order ease does not directly correlate with error-free suffix processing in language learning.